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57% “left: too hot/cold” beside a CFD cutaway of an apparel store with a fabric duct and its air temperature field
Fabric Duct for Apparel Stores: Drafts, Condensation and Noise
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An apparel store is controlled to one thermostat reading, but shoppers and staff feel something else: a cold jet at the register, a warm fitting room at the back, a drip line over a rack of white shirts. Each of...
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Textile Air Ducts in Cold Rooms: Throw, Load and Defrost
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How air really moves in a cold room: jet throw decay, dead zones behind pallets and defrost heat gain, and the two textile duct families that answer them.
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Fabric duct hanging from a steel cable beneath the high glazed roof of an airport terminal concourse
Air distribution in airport terminals: the fabric duct case
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Thermal drafts, jet decay from 100 ft ceilings and duct leakage decide air distribution in an airport terminal. What fabric duct with nozzles changes.
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Fabric duct suspended from a steel cable above the water surface of an indoor swimming pool with concrete structure
Why metal ductwork does not belong in an indoor pool
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In 1985 the concrete roof of an indoor pool in Uster, Switzerland, fell onto the swimmers and twelve people died. The stainless steel rods holding it had been cracking for years from chloride-induced corrosion, at a temperature engineering considered safe....
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